SALE SUMMARY
Three in one units: 21 offered and sold to $7000 av $5095
Donor cows: Six offered and sold to $14,500 av $6083
PTIC cows: 102 offered and sold to $9000 av $3926
PTIC heifers: 19 offered and sold to $8500 av $3789
Weaner heifers: 18 offered and sold to $3500 av $2166
Four embryo packages of four embryos each to $900 av$725
AN OUTSTANDING embryo transfer donor female stole the limelight at Stoney Point Performance Angus stud’s autumn calving herd sale on Wednesday last week.
Lot 25, Yankee Queen G257 which was from one of the stud’s top cow families and a daughter of herd matriach Yankee Queen X65 made $14,500.
It has been a prolific egg producer with 32 embryos in one flush.
The 5.5 year old- which had been artificially inseminated to Connealy Impression caught the eye of many of the more than 50 registered bidders from Qld, NSW, Vic and SA.
Buyer Glenn Bowman, Bowman stud, Rosedale, Vic described her as the “stand-out female”.
“There was a lot to like about her phenotype with a very good topline and great spring of rib and she has good performance data too,” he said.
The successful sale at the stud’s Naracoorte sale complex achieved a total clearance of the live lots and embryo and semen packages. This included a $4217 average for the cows with calves, donor cows and pregnancy tested in calf cows.
Rob and Cindy Savage, Chesapeake Pastoral, Naracoorte paid the $9000 top price in the PTIC cow category for Lot 101, Stoney Point Mona J78.
Mona was a daughter of Stoney Point Fever Pitch F93 and had an exciting mating to Australian record priced bull, Millah Murrah Kingdom K35, which sold in 2015 for $150,000.
Two three in one units with bull calves made $7000 each- one to Binnowie Downs, Coonalpyn and another to BK&PL Sleep, Meningie.
Goolagong stud, Warnertown also operated in the top end of the catalogue with seven lots, including Lot 122, Stoney Point Yankee Queen K57 for $7000.
The sale was interfaced with Auctions Plus who were a major buyer.
Five different buyers from SA, Vic and NSW bought 37 lots online after 2264 catalogue views.
Several other volume orders in the stands also underpinned the sale’s success.
Rising Sun Pastoral Company, Western Flat bought five cows with calves for a $4200 av, 12 PTIC cows for a $3500 av, four PTIC heifers for a $3500 av and five “classed in” weaner heifers for a $1950 av.
“With the price of cattle I can sell a couple of average commercial heifers for one of the stud heifers” Rising Sun’s John Meek said.
Windhover Farm, Oakbank put 20 cows on their buying card, paying $3000 to $4500.
Landmark and Spence Dix & Co conducted the sale with Gordon Wood, Richard Miller and Jonathan Spence the auctioneers.
Spence Dix & Co’s Jonathan Spence said stud breeders seized the opportunity to secure genetics from the heart of the herd, being a genuine dispersal of the autumn calvers.
“Some of the cow families who have performed well such as the Yankee Queens and Georginas were well sought after,” he said.
“As a result of the lack of breeding females available it was well supported by commercial producers prepared to pay bottom end stud money.”
Landmark’s Gordon Wood said the catalogue included top-end genetics with “performance equal to any operations across the globe.”
“It wasn’t an enormous crowd but those who were here backed it strongly and it was one of the stronger female sales supported by AuctionsPlus,” he said.
Stoney Point director Perry Gunner was thrilled to achieve a total clearance and said prices reflected the quality of the animals on offer.
He said they were simplifying their operations from a split autumn and spring calving to one spring drop.
“Calving has been a lengthy and protracted business which requires a lot of labour so to condense it into one period rather than two makes sense,” he said. “ “It will also ensure top fertility in the herd.”
Stoney Point will continue to hold bull sales in SA and Vic.
